'Ann Murray',
DBE is an
Irish mezzo-soprano. She was born on
August 27,
1949 in Dublin. She studied with Frederick Cox at the
Royal Manchester College of Music and made her stage debut as Alcestis in
Christoph Willibald Gluck's
Alceste in 1974. She has since sung at all major opera houses and is highly acclaimed in works by
George Frideric Handel,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and
Richard Strauss.
Ms. Murray performs mainly at
Covent Garden (where she performed as Siphare in
Mitridate Rè di Ponto), the
English National Opera, and the
Bavarian State Opera (where she was named their Kammersängerin in 1998). Ms. Murray was the featured singer in volume three of the Hyperion Schubert Edition,
Hyperion Records' complete
Franz Schubert leider project, in 1988, led by pianist
Graham Johnson. As a non-British citizen, she was made an honorary
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to music in 2002. She is married to English tenor
Philip Langridge.
External links
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Short biography at Bach-Cantatas.com
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Artist page at Hyperion Records.
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Artist page at Askonas Holt Ltd.